Mehdi Letafati

Mehdi Letafati received his B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2019 and 2021, respectively. He is currently a doctoral researcher at the Center for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland, working at 6G Flagship project. Before that, he was with the College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, working on metaverse healthcare and privacy as a Research Assistant. He was a program attendee at Cornell, Maryland, Max-Planck Pre-Doctoral Research School, Saarbrüecken, Germany, in August 2020. His current research interests lie at the intersection of AI/ML and wireless communications. He is also interested in information theory, data science, and enabling technologies for digital healthcare and metaverse applications. He was honored to be ranked 4th among all participants in the Nationwide University Entrance Exam in 2015. He was a recipient of the Exceptional Talent for outstanding performance during his undergraduate and Master studies, and also a recipient of National Elite Foundation's scholarships for teaching assistance from 2019 to 2021. Mehdi serves as a peer reviewer for top-tier IEEE journals, including the IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.